Question

More than 3, 000, 000, 000 pencils are manufactured in country A annually. Write this number in scientific notation

Answer 1

3.0 times 10 with 8 as the exponent

Explanation:

Count the amount of times you move the decimal point.

That number is the exponent number.

If you are counting left it is positive, if you are counting right it is negative.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Count the number of zeros.

There are 9 of them.

So the answer is 3 * 10^9